There have been two very significant developments in Nigerian sports this past week. The first is that November 30, 2017, came and went and the world did not end! The second is that Nigeria escaped by a hair’s breadth what...
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Nigeria in the Group of Death or Group of Hope?
The die is now cast. Last Friday night the world witnessed the draws of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The entire event was so well choreographed that even the eventual draws turned out to represent every country’s interest and no...
Super Eagles – the black man’s burden, responsibility and hope!
I am not racist in any form or shape. There isn’t even an atom of it in my DNA. Unfortunately, I also now understand clearly that as a black man I belong to a specie that has probably always been...
Congrats Super Eagles as Football takes over the world!
Many exciting things are happening around the world of football these days. Keeping pace has become a great challenge. All over the world last weekend, the penultimate series of matches for qualification for the 2018 World Cup went on. Many...
Looking at Nigerian politics through Sports!
I am not a politician. I have never been one. But one cannot be alive in Nigeria today and not be politically involved, either as an activist or a victim, in the political theatrics ongoing in the country. My head...
Super Eagles – the burden and the hope of the Black race.
The Super Eagles of Nigeria are much more than the national team of Nigeria. They are the hope of the Black race in a world dominated by others and where, as a human specie, despite the Centuries of struggles, they...
Cameroon and Nigeria in Dance of Death
I am struggling to write this on Thursday night.‘Under normal temperature and pressure’, as we used to say in physics class in those days, I should be commenting on the Super Eagles and their prospects in the very crucial first...
Why Cameroons must fall!
These are not the best of times for Nigerian football and for those in the business in Nigeria. Since the end of the last World Cup in Brazil, the football industry has been in famine. The reason is simple –...
The Ghost of Hayatou resurrects in Rabat!
Issa Hayatou has resurrected in Morocco at the CAF Executive Committee meeting taking place in the city of Rabat. This time around, instead of haunting all his opponents as was the case for the many decades of his endless, autocratic...
2030 – West Africa’s turn to host the World Cup!
On the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2017, I followed the news on CNN. It was about USA, Mexico and Canada, in short the entire North American continent, bidding to host the FIFA World Cup in 2026 when the new...
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